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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2021 Mar 3;277(1):57–65. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004848

Table 2:

Changes in patients with procedure requests from 2019 to 2020

2019
N (%)
2020
N (%)
p-value

Age category (years) <0.001
 18–35 4,009 (15.4) 3,459 (17.0)
 36–50 5,521 (21.3) 4,217 (20.7)
 51–65 7,932 (30.6) 6,350 (31.2)
 >65 8,500 (32.7) 6,350 (31.2)

Gender 0.5
 Male 11,842 (45.6) 9,403 (46.1)
 Female 14,093 (54.3) 10,953 (53.8)
 Other 27 (0.1) 20 (0.1)

Primary language <0.001
 English 23,738 (91.4) 18,856 (92.5)
 Spanish 890 (3.4) 690 (3.4)
 Cantonese 361 (1.4) 244 (1.2)
 Other 973 (3.7) 586 (2.9)

Race/ethnicity <0.001
 American Indian or Alaska Native 129 (0.5) 101 (0.5)
 Asian 3,761 (14.5) 2,725 (13.4)
 Black or African American 1,496 (5.8) 1,289 (6.3)
 Latinx 3,442 (13.3) 2,754 (13.5)
 Multi-race/ethnicity 640 (2.5) 412 (2.0)
 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 149 (0.6) 123 (0.6)
 Other 956 (3.7) 790 (3.9)
 Unknown/declined 417 (1.6) 544 (2.7)
 White or Caucasian 14,972 (57.7) 11,638 (57.1)

Marital status <0.001
 Partnered 14,472 (55.7) 11,145 (54.7)
 Unpartnered 10,587 (40.8) 8,352 (41.0)
 Unknown/declined 903 (3.5) 879 (4.3)

Insurance type <0.001
 Commercial 9,729 (37.5) 8,025 (39.4)
 Medi-Cal 4,687 (18.1) 4,014 (19.7)
 Medicare 9,884 (38.1) 7,155 (35.1)
 Other 845 (3.3) 707 (3.5)
 Uninsured/Self-Pay 817 (3.1) 475 (2.3)

Quartile of ZIP code median income in overall cohort 0.5
 Top quartile 6,409 (24.7) 5,159 (25.3)
 3rd quartile 6,370 (24.5) 4,948 (24.3)
 2nd quartile 6,663 (25.7) 5,182 (25.4)
 Bottom quartile 6,520 (25.1) 5,087 (25.0)

ZIP code >100 mi from our center 4,266 (16.4) 3,124 (15.3) 0.001

Multi-panel procedure 1,268 (4.9) 1,061 (5.2) 0.12

Cancer-associated procedure 4,896 (18.9) 3,918 (19.2) 0.3

Procedure request result <0.001
 Completed or Scheduled 19,840 (76.4) 15,261 (74.9)
 Canceled 6,055 (23.3) 2,548 (12.5)
 Not Scheduled 67 (0.3) 2,567 (12.6)

2019 cohort is patients with procedure requests from March 16 – August 25, 2019. 2020 cohort is patients with procedure requests from March 16 – August 25, 2020.